Climate tipping points are thresholds within Earth’s climate system beyond which change becomes self-reinforcing and, in some cases, irreversible on human timescales. Rather than unfolding gradually, ...

Pandemics and climate change share the property of being driven by positive feedback loops. For pandemics, the more people who acquire a disease, the more people who are exposed to the disease, the ...

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We know by now that climate change can’t be ignored. Now and then, though, we stumble upon a new reason to embrace climate change mitigation techniques with a renewed sense of urgency. This might be ...

When a human sustains a wound that pierces the skin, the process of blood clotting begins. The damaged cells release chemicals that activate platelets in the bloodstream. Not only do platelets begin ...

Risky feedback loops that are accelerating global climate change may not be fully accounted for in current climate models, according to a recent study published in the scientific journal One Earth. A ...

It’s easy to dwell on the difficulty and pain of recovery from an eating disorder. But it’s important to attend to the beauty of it too. One of the forms of beauty involved in restoring yourself to ...